THONET CHAIR FROM TON

When I was in Prague I jumped on the subway headed for the suburbs just to visit the only open TON-store on a sunday.

The No 14 chair from Thonet really cought the attention of swedish homes a couple of years ago. At first they were really expensive, even the old ones were sold to high bids on auctions. 

Lately all swedish well known retailers have offered customers the same chair from the Czech company TON for a more human price. (In Czech republic they are amazingly cheap)

 I do not know the exact history concerning their manufacturing and patent but there has been discussion about which one is the "real" and authentic Thonet chair (as all popular design furniture). All I know is that the TON-company derives from a fabric who have been manufacturing these famous chairs and have done so the last 150 years.

In Sweden the classic Vienna-chair could be bought at a price of about 140 euros at for example my favorite e-shops for furniture and interior design, the wonderful Artelleriet or Länna Möbler, but if you visit the company GOODS and order more than 4 chairs, it is about 90 euros per chair.

Picture: Goods



Picture: Artelleriet

Pictures: Pinterest

THE COMEBACK OF THE DENIM JACKET

 I've been getting cravings for denim jackets. I think I'm gonna go for a white one and dust of my mothers old vintage LEVI'S - denim at its best. 

Look here Allsaints

New take on WRANGLER

 Numeros dos Allsaints

 Classic, favorite, LEVI'S

Very similar to LEVI'S

A CLASSIC

The polar prize tomorrow. 

Hands up for mister Simon, writer of tunes that sends shivers over 40 years later.

Hello darkness, my old friend 

I've come to talk with you again 

Because a vision softly creeping 

Left its seeds while I was sleeping 

And the vision that was planted in my brain 

Still remains 

Within the sound of silence 

In restless dreams I walked alone 

Narrow streets of cobblestone 

'Neath the halo of a street lamp 

I turned my collar to the cold and damp 

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light 

That split the night 

And touched the sound of silence 

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paul+simon/sounds+of+silence_20559740.html ] 

And in the naked light I saw 

Ten thousand people, maybe more 

People talking without speaking 

People hearing without listening 

People writing songs that voices never share 

And no one dared 

Disturb the sound of silence 

"Fools", said I, "You do not know 

Silence like a cancer grows 

Hear my words that I might teach you 

Take my arms that I might reach you" 

But my words, like silent raindrops fell 

And echoed 

In the wells of silence 

And the people bowed and prayed 

To the neon god they made 

And the sign flashed out its warning 

In the words that it was forming 

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls 

And tenement halls" 

And whispered in the sounds of silence

CLASSICAL NOSTALGIA

I do not have much more to say, than that some things are better vintage than new. Natural wear and tear. Perfect second hand items.

This jeans jacket belonged to my mother...

DIY

Shorts, the perfect way of Upcycling. The concept and goal of Upcycling is to prevent wasting potentially useful materials by making use of existing ones.

"Recycling is great but it requires energy and resources to collect, sort and process unwanted items and waste.

Upcycling is an even greener way of recycling – you find a new purpose for your unwanted items before you chuck them away..."

Words from this site

Well, I am not a handy man myself, but a pair of jeans shorts is not that hard to make.

  Pictures from Knightcat and Gilded20s

TODAY'S CLASSICS

A classic frenchstripe top from Filippa K & sneakers from Sixty Seven.

STRIPES FOR LIFE

Sailor stripes, a Classic. 

Always fashionable and timeless...

 Coco Chanel in the 1930's, Audrey Tatou playing Chanel in the movie Coco Avant Chanel, and Audrey Hepburn from the 1960's

 Kate Moss in Vougue 2011

 Brigitte Bardot at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival

TODAY'S CLASSICS

My old pair of converse and Filippa K summer jacket